"By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow."

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Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April 2014.

Elissa Schappell

#Opportunity Quotes #Investing Quotes #Grows Quotes

“Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.”
“I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.”

Source : "Face Time | Taylor Schilling". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.
“Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and discussion to come. But whatever the outcome of ensuing criticisms or objections, The World Republic of Letters -- empire more than republic, as Casanova shows -- is likely to have the same sort of liberating impact at large as Said's Orientalism, with which it stands comparison.”
“The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.”
“...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.”
“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.
“Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.”
“Including everyone in the economic, wealth-creating life of the nation is today the best way for Labor (Australian Labor Party) to meet its twin goals of raising national prosperity and creating a fair and decent society.”

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